Earlier in the morning The White Light stand had also seen the launch of the latest offering from Robert Juliat, - Lancelot - the latest in a line of innovative products from French manufacturer Robert Juliat.
The brightest, most spectacular fixture ever released by Robert Juliat, Lancelot is both a long-throw effects projector and a followspot suitable for the largest of venues, particularly stadiums. Based around a 360,000 lumen 4kW HTI lamp, Lancelot uses a carefully-designed optical train that gives an extremely flat-field beam distribution. Lancelot's modular design allows up to five effects cassettes to be inserted: based around a totally new four-blade design these allow progressive effects such as frost or colour correction. Further effects will be available for Lancelot during 2007, including strobing, a six-slot gobo wheel, motorised zoom, a moving mirror head and more, many either locally controlled by an operator or remotely controlled via DMX.
Lancelot retains many familiar Robert Juliat features, such as the 6-way boomerang colour changer, fan cooled to maximise colour life, the built-in dimmer shutter with rotary handle for smooth dimming control, the fully-closing iris, and the self-locking focus handles. Lancelot has also been designed for easy set-up, with a fixed front lens for better balance setting and an easy-to-balance counterweight, and easy maintenance, with the dimmer and iris modules and mirror, lamphouse and double-condenser optics removable and all parts of the lantern readily accessible.
Other examples of the Robert Juliat range, including the Super Korrigan followspot and the Lutin PC/fresnel, will be on show alongside Lancelot on stand G25.
(Chris Henry)
